Police have arrested a man who claimed to have a bomb in his carry-on luggage at Charlotte-Douglas International Airport.

Twenty-four-year-old Felipe Moraga Martin is charged with felony reporting of a false bomb in a public building.

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Charlotte-Mecklenburg police say while Martin was in line to board a U.S. Airways plane Saturday night, he told airline employees he had a bomb in his luggage. Police determined that Martin did not have a bomb and arrested him on the false reporting charge.